AMD heeft woensdag met versienummer 9.3 de tweede Catalyst-release van dit jaar voor de ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De drivers zijn beschikbaar voor Windows XP en Vista, in zowel de 32bits-, de 64bits- en de Media Center-uitvoering. De nieuwe drivers zijn voor alle Radeon-modellen vanaf de 9500-serie en de All-in-Wonder-kaarten vanaf de 9600-serie geschikt. Onderaan deze posting kunnen zoals gebruikelijk de directe links worden gevonden naar de pagina's waar de beschikbare downloads staan.
De meest in het oog springende verandering in deze release is dat er één gemeenschappelijke driver is voor Windows Vista en Windows 7. Opvallend is ook dat AMD stelt dat de performance voor spellen onder Windows 7 hoger ligt dan onder Windows Vista. De volledige release notes voor versie 9.3, die uiteraard weer de gebruikelijke lijst met veranderingen en verbeteringen, gevolgd door een verzameling van problemen die reeds bekend zijn laat zien, is hieronder te vinden:
New Features
ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows VistaATI Catalyst 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
- AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
- Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
- Delivers improved gaming performance under Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
- All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Using ATI Stream technology, owners of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst 9.3
Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packagesNew AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
- As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 the Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included in the ATI Catalyst 9.3 package
- The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed
Performance Improvements
- AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
- The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
- The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK
- The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
Catalyst 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited. Some measured examples are:Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
- Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
- Video combing effects no longer visible during movie playback while fast forwarding or rewinding
- Avivo Video Color Settings are now retained after resume from Sleep/Hibernate
- Overlay Theater Mode is now enabled with component video or composite video in extended modes
- Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video Advanced Color page is no longer grayed out and preview is now functional
- OGL games now play properly with "Show Crossfire logo…" option enabled
- Rotation now works if Aero mode is turned off
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System
- Avivo Video Color Settings will now be applied in the video when played using PowerDVD
- FJ online game no longer changes resolution slowly in full screen mode with some ASICs
- Quake 4: Screen corruption no longer appears in CrossFire using two bridge cables with some ASICs
- Composite video no longer goes black when disabling Overlay Theater Mode using Catalyst Control Center
- Resolved issues for Open GL 3.0 "CreateContext" function
- Toggling between 3D games in full screen mode to the desktop is no longer slow when using the Alt-Tab key
Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System
- AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format
- “Unsupported file formats” error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264, mp4 and VC1 file formats
- “CCC Host application...” error message dialog may occur when cancelling a transcoding process
- Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format
- The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under Windows Vista 64-bit edition
- "World of Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King": Flickering may occur when Shadow is set to medium/high using CrossFire
- Google Sketchup may show blank screen
- Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
- Both LCD and CRT may go blank when hotplugging the CRT to the system, and will not recover until it is switched to discrete GPU
Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
- In this Catalyst 9.3 release, the Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL) driver will not function properly under Windows XP
- OS Display Settings shows extra resolutions for Component Video
- Transcoding a VOB DVD file (18min source file) results in 2.27min output file
- Transcoding falls back to CPU after transcoding to DVD/MPEG2 multiple times in XP
- Media files transcoded using CPU instead of GPU in XP MCE OS
- Desktop may jitter and flicker during HD playback under WinDVD9 on some ASICs
- Certain resolutions above 10 x 7 might not full screen for specific HDMI displays
- Express driver uninstall may result in a device manager error
- Avivo Video Converter option is not available for Windows 7
- Moving a video clip across an extended desktop may cause the desktop to flicker or the media player to stop functioning
- Changes to display resolutions may fail to apply for composite video and S-Video
- Restricting the maximum refresh rate and resolution via Catalyst Control Center may fail to apply
- Catalyst Control Center page is missing under OS Display Properties
- Confirmation dialog box might not appear when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
- Display configuration changes in extended desktop may take longer than normal to apply
- Catalyst Control Center: Image Scaling settings might not be applied
De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows XP (32bit)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows XP (mobility)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows XP (64bit)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows XP (Media Center Edition)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows Vista (32bit)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows Vista (64bit)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows 7 (32bit)ATi Catalyst 9.3 voor Windows 7 (64bit)
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